Eventually everyone's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position. All these editors like Sublime Text 2, Chocolat, Light IDE, Cloud9, etc fail at very basic task: sticking around. They also fail at another task: being available everywhere.<p>If a new decent editor shows up, it wont be shiny, it wont grab headlines on HN with a fancily designed website, it will simply grow popular slowly, be added to package managers across platforms after withstanding the test of time. The test of more than one person or just a few developing it and then moving on to something else.<p>With vim and emacs you're guaranteed to not be wasting your time learning their arcane ways. Long after humans have left the Earth someone will be reprogramming a couple of launch tubes on their trans-stellar space vehicle with vim. They wont be using this fluff from Adobe.
How hard would it be for someone to build and IDE (with nice code browser, refactoring and all the smart stuff... like JetBrains products) <i>on top of</i> or <i>incorporating</i> an editor like Sublime or Textmate?<p>I'd pay an arm and leg for IDEA or PyCharm with Sublime as the text editor (or something else with multiple cursors and all the "shiny" editor stuff), and the ability to launch either the full IDE or just the editor and be able to share editor settings, depending on what I'm doing (eg. the IDE for browsing a huge codebase or just the editor for working on a small project)...<p>I can even think of a business idea: 1. make awesome open source editor (Sublime text with optional Vim keybindings is awesome enough for me) 2. build smart IDE on top of it (what I expect from an IDE are things that require "understanding the code", ie. lots of language specific features, refactoring and tools integration, nice looking tree code browser etc.) 3. profit!!! (imagine that you'll also profit from the evolution of the open-source editor and from the "complex" IDE features you develop, at the same time! and the "IDE haters" that will just use the editor would use or recommend the IDE whenever they would need to navigate an ugly codebase or recommend something to someone else)
I just skimmed the long video..<p>The good: auto-refreshing preview of HTML page upon save<p>The bad: no auto-end-brackets or end quotes as one types (ironic, considering the editor is named <i>Brackets</i>)<p>I am sure that the talented Adobe engineers will make this editor a major contender for Sublime and Textmate in the future, but at this point, I think the <i>stunning</i> attribute in the post title is a bit link-baitish. I'm looking forward to watching the editor develop into a mature product!
Well, it certainly looks nice, but seems limited to mostly front-end web development work. I don't think Sublime and Textmate have anything to worry about for the foreseeable future.
I saw this one a while back (a couple of weeks, I think). While it looked nice, I didn't "get it" - why would I use an editor that is severely limited (only HTML/CSS/JS) when there are other editors out there that supports pretty much everything?<p>Sure, you can "improve" (read: mess up) the editor by changing it's source code - but I still don't see the point. I'm using Sublime Text 2, with it's package manager. Everything I need is a few key presses away, and there's usually no need to restart the editor after installing something.<p>Also, I'd never use an editor that didn't support remote sync on save, version control, etc. (Managing component source code outside of the webroot makes it so much easier to handle in git.)
Product demo videos don't usually hold my attention ... but I was riveted for the full 20 mins (full credit to both the product and Jeffry Way). Downloading the repo now.
This looks interesting but what is more interesting to me is the brackets-shell, which looks to be a chromium shell for running an HTML/JS app as a native application. It looks to be very minimal and would just be fantastic for creating desktop apps. Every one of the existing solutions I've checked out so far all kinda suck in some way.<p>I hadn't realized that was working yet. I saw the repo for the shell itself is here <a href="https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell</a> - it seems almost like a lightweight version of AIR. Does anybody have any more information on this..?
I noticed that the Emmet extension added keyboard shortcuts like "Command+Up". But that's a standard OSX text entry navigation shortcut! Why would you do that?
Here's the important link for anybody else who downloaded this and then thought "Damn, I fell for yet another link bait post for some halfassed unfinished edito--<i>HEY</i>, what a <i>great font</i>!!".<p><a href="https://github.com/adobe/Source-Code-Pro/downloads" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/adobe/Source-Code-Pro/downloads</a>
This has been around for a while now, I used it a few months ago, and while interesting it didn't do anything I don't already do with Sublime and other tools. Someday it may do those things more easily, but for now, I don't see any significant reason to switch.
I doubt I'll be leaving vim for this anytime soon. More interesting would be if they could extract a framework for doing cross plattform desktop apps with html/css/js from this.
I feel so conflicted whenever I see <i>any</i> new editor, ide or environment setup, since I instinctively want to check it out and get excited, but I know that I will likely never leave vim. Light Table in particular has a bunch of ideas (I mean the theoretical best case scenario stuff, I haven't given the alpha a good look) that I wish I could see myself using.
I know I am a minority, and I am not very likely to switch to a new editor anyway, but I'd like to point out that not everybody watches videos. And if it absolutely has to be a video, why not make it work without flash? I'd have to switch browsers to watch the video, and since I don't even like watching videos, I just won't check out this amazing new editor.
I stopped at "you can edit the editor's source code in HTML/JS/CSS" For me personally, I want the best native editor I can find that makes doing my job easier/simpler - I don't want an editor that I can tinker around with its source code and accidentally shoot myself in the foot.
Linux support should be a first class citizen IMO.<p>I'm not too impressed by the editor. It's like a less mature and worse version of cloud9. The only neat thing was the inline tag-based css editing window but I wouldn't switch editors just for that.
SENSATIONALIST TITLE! This seems great for web dev, but Sublime is just killer for Python, I don't see this making any editor 'look out' if you spend most of your time in a backend language.
Hopefully Sublime Text's developers aren't following the Textmate precedent:<p><pre><code> 1. Make awesome software
2. Profit!
3. Party while software languishes (pure assumption)
4. Fail</code></pre>